I've been trying for awhile to change the focus of this blog, and now that I've got both time and motivation to do that, I've decided that LJ doesn't really suit me anymore. My new blog, "Marginally Yours" is here: marginallyyours.blogspot.com. I hope you'll read and comment.

and I've officially given up thinking I'm going to sleep any more than the 3.5 hours I already have. I wasn't supposed to get up untill 7:30, but I've been awake since 4 and can't deal with lying in bed staring at the ceiling any longer. My stomach is all topsy-turvy. I'm not scared, really; it's just nervous energy. Everyone cross your fingers ( Read more... )

Some students in a colleague's class are interested in citing my thesis for their essays on Twelfth Night and She's the Man. It's below the cut( Read more... )

Hi all. Sorry I've been away from eljay so much lately. As most of you know, I've been busy planning my wedding (that's in SIX weeks--eek!) and going through the painful PhD apps process for the second time. I still have four schools I haven't heard from, but I got my first acceptance today, from Florida State. Just wanted to share ( Read more... )

Hey guys. Thanks for your participation in my poll. Since you all helped so much, I thought you may like to see the final paper.( Read more... )

Answer both questions. Women only, please. I certainly understand that men can be and are feminists, it's just that my paper focuses exclusively on women.Poll Evangelicals and Feminists

Hi, all! I hope you are having a happy holiday season. I'm working on a paper for a conference in February. The conference is on Evangelicalism in America, and my paper hypothesizes that the new "Modesty Movement" heralded by Wendy Shalit in such books as A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue (1999), Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim ( Read more... )

 I passed my thesis defense! Yay! Also, i got to have time with my girls today, and Jensen Ackles got naked on Supernatural. Thanks, CW.

 It is just past 4am. I am awake. That is not okay. I'm also pretty stoned on cold meds, since the universe seems to have deemed it appropriate for me to get the worst cold ever less than two days from my thesis defense. I'm just praying that I don't totally lose my voice.
Anyway, since I'm awake, I wanted to share this article from the most recent ( Read more... )

 From “Queen of (Shakes)teen” to Girls Gone Mild : Trends in Female Teen Identity Formation
Julia Stiles's Star Body and Teen Identity Formation

According to her official fansite, Julia Stiles was born March 28, 1981 to John, who taught second grade in Harlem, and Judith, who made and sold ceramics, both of whom are “true radicals of the Sixties ( Read more... )